William H. Duckworth

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William H. Duckworth , also called Bill Duckworth , (born August 24, 1885 in Fort Dodge , Iowa , † May 21, 1970 in Clovis , New Mexico ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1922 he served as lieutenant governor in the state of New Mexico .

Career

William H. Duckworth was born during the tenure of President Grover Cleveland in Webster County . He left school at the age of 16 to work as a pharmaceutical salesman for drug company McKesson. Duckworth sold drugs in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico. In 1908 he came to Clovis in Curry County . He liked the emerging town . In 1910 he moved permanently to Clovis. He acquired the Southwest Drug Company at Main and Grand . In 1917 he married his first wife Mabel Shannon (1892–1962). The marriage remained childless.

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In 1920 he was elected lieutenant governor of New Mexico - a post he held from January 1921 to December 1922.

In 1922 he sold his company to enter the auto trade. He also traded real estate and farms until 1928. At that point he bought his own Dodge dealership. He said the following about the early years of depression :

"I was active in running a business and a farm and meeting both financial success and fiasco."

In 1934 he opened the Duckworth Drug Company on 320 Main, which he headed until 1952. He served in the New Mexico Senate for six years . During that time, on August 29, 1968, he was one of the well-wishers of Fabián Chávez Jr. , who won the Democratic primary for governor of New Mexico but lost the later gubernatorial elections. Duckworth has served on the Clovis Chamber of Commerce , the Board of Regents at Eastern New Mexico University , the Lincoln County Memorial Commission , the State Board of Pharmacy, and the State Tax Commission . He was a collector of books which he donated to the Clovis Library. He also had an almost daily 15-minute radio show telling a story about old timepieces. Years after the death of his first wife, he married Lucia Staubus, widow of Rock Staubus. He died on May 21, 1970 in Clovis Memorial Hospital , where his right leg had previously been amputated on May 5, 1970. His body was then interred in the Mission Garden of Memories Cemetery in Clovis.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taking on Giants: Fabián Chávez, Jr. and New Mexico Politics , David Roybal, UNM Press, 2008, ISBN 0826344364 , p. 222

literature

  • Blue Book 2012 (PDF; 28.9 MB), Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State, July 2012, pp. 211, 214 and 218.

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SURNAME Duckworth, William H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duckworth, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Dodge , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1970
Place of death Clovis , New Mexico